Month: April 2018

A chat bot is a service, powered by rules and sometimes artificial intelligence which converse via natural language text interfaces. Amazon offers its own service on AWS to build Conversation Bots known as Amazon Lex. Whereas, Microsoft offers a set of Cognitive services and Bot Framework to build chat bot on Azure and also locally. … Continue reading Amazon Lex compared to Microsoft Bot Framework→

Node.js foundation has now opened an access to official certification for developers all around the world. Node.js has been said as the future of web development due to its features like non-blocking I/O and asynchronous functionality. Price: $300 Location: Remote, Online Retake: Allowed once Preparation: Material is included in the price. Average salary: $115K According to … Continue reading Official Node.js Certification: Price, Syllabus and popular online courses→

In this post we will see how can we setup an express web application and how to deploy an node.js based express web application. Step 1: Creating an web application in express. To create a express application skeleton we need to install express generator from npm: Check available option while creating an express app: After … Continue reading Creating and Deploying Express Web App on Azure in few steps→

LUIS is Language Understanding Intelligent Service from Microsoft, as part of Azure Cognitive Services. Several Microsoft technologies work with LUIS: Bot Framework allows a chat bot to talk with a user via text input. Bing Speech API converts spoken language requests into text. Once converted to text, LUIS processes the requests. LUIS allows us to create an … Continue reading Learning about LUIS and Consuming LUIS API in node.js→

If you want to execute after set period of time, timers are used for that. Timers are globally available in node.js. Check official documentation here. Three types of timers are: setTimeout() setImmediate() setInterval(); setTimeout() - "When I say so!" used for scheduling execution of code after set of milliseconds. accepts set of arguments - first arg. … Continue reading How to use Timers in Node.js?→